Kash Patel has admitted to alcohol-related crimes, report reveals, as Trump stands by FBI director

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Source: Independent

President Donald Trump is continuing to back FBI Director Kash Patel after allegations that the 46-year-old former podcaster is frequently drunk in public to the point of intoxication and other allegedly troubling behavior reported in a blockbuster magazine article last week.

According to documents published by The Intercept Friday, Patel admitted to having been arrested on two occasions — once for public intoxication as a minor while an undergraduate in Virginia, and once for public urination while out drinking in New York City when he was a law student.

He detailed both incidents in a letter submitted for his personnel file when he was a Miami-Dade County, Florida public defender after being asked by his employer to explain the past arrests because he had disclosed them in his application for admission to the Florida Bar.

“Both of these incidents are not representative of my usual conduct of behavior, and it is my hope that the [Florida Bar] views them as an anomaly,” he said.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/kash-patel-admitted-alcohol-related-201400627.html

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He decided to become a lawyer when he was told he'd be a member of the bar.

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1. Oh snap1

He decided to become a lawyer when he was told he'd be a member of the bar.

[IronLionZion]

2. If the bar's not bending, you're just pretending

Fitness Quotes Paired With Drinking Photos are Ready to Inspire a Night of Heavy Drinking

https://cheezburger.com/677125/fitness-quotes-paired-with-drinking-photos

[BaronChocula]

3. If Don Nods is publicly backing you

Back, meet knife.

[William Seger]

4. #rump "stands by" nobody for long

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5. I'll have a shot of whatever gives him those googly-eyes

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6. Don't they say that once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic, in AA meetings?

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7. More deflection form the Epstein files.

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8. ;-{)......

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9. It helps to have more dirt on Trump than he has on you.

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10. trump had a brother who carried the dad, Fred's, name who died of alcohol abuse.

trump always seemed to malign him...
Now he's curiously willing to put up with this drunken, no-talent loser.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. "Kash Patel got arrested for public urination after a night of drinking"

How did this story not come out during the confirmation

Link to tweet

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12. Patel unfit to hold any position of power.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. Discovery in the upcoming lawsuits will be fun

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14. K&R

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Kash Patel blows past alcohol test deadline as critics label him 'raging alcoholic'

Kash Patel is ignoring the alcohol test deadlines. I suspect that Patel is going to have fun in discovery if his silly case against The Atlantic goes to trial.

FBI Director #KashPatel has not submitted the test results to Congress and hasn't responded to Democrats’ request, the House Judiciary Democrats spokeswoman confirmed to Raw Story.

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-04-29T19:30:20Z

https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-2676830790/

Nearly 20 House Democrats demanded last week that FBI Director Kash Patel take and share the results of an Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test by Tuesday amid accusations of excessive drinking, but as of Wednesday, Patel has yet to respond to the lawmakers’ request, a House Judiciary Democrats spokeswoman confirmed to Raw Story.

On April 21, 18 Democratic lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee signed off on a letter addressed to Patel citing a “damning and explosive report” published by The Atlantic earlier this month, in which multiple insiders told the magazine that Patel’s “excessive drinking” and “unexplained absences” had “alarmed” his colleagues at the FBI.

In the letter, the lawmakers issued Patel a deadline of April 28 to fill out and submit to Congress the results of the 10-question screening test developed by the World Health Organization in the 1980s to identify harmful alcohol use among individuals.

Patel has fiercely denied the accusations, responding by filing a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic for defamation.

“We understand that you have sued the journalists who have reported on the widespread concerns about your job performance and alcohol abuse, demanding a whopping $250 million in damages, plus disgorgement of income,” the letter addressed to Patel said.

“However, the American people deserve to hear the facts directly from you now – not your lawyers weeks or months from now – to determine for ourselves whether your continued leadership of the FBI in fact constitutes a severe ‘national security vulnerability.’”